Weekend Getaway in Washington, DC - Jim Flynn's BestWeekends

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Washington, DC

Washington has been the backdrop for some of the country's proudest and saddest moments; John Kennedy's inauguration, the Cuban missile crisis, the Civil Rights movement, the Kennedy and Reagan funerals, Watergate, the Iraq wars, the Clinton sex scandal, the man on the moon, the Mideast Peace Agreement, the fall of communism and so much more. I was actually in Washington the day Martin Luther King was assassinated and had to flee the City as the rioting started. Seeing the nation's capital on TV is one…

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